Long before Marge Simpson or Amy Winehouse created a buzz sporting beehive hairdos, it had to be invented. And that’s how Margaret Vinci Heldt, a star in the world of hair design, made her name.
The iconic style first fashioned in 1960 by Heldt, now a spry and vivacious 92-year-old, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010.
Margaret Vinci Heldt used to tell her clients, "I don't care what your husband does from the neck down, but I don't want him to touch you from the neck up."
When Arab-American beauty Elizabeth (Lisa) Najeeb Halaby met the late King Hussein of Jordan at an Amman airport ceremony in 1976 it was the beginning of an improbable royal fairy-tale.
The Princeton-educated daughter of an Arab-American airline executive was working with her father (a friend of the king's) on a consulting project. The stunning and articulate young woman, who would become Jordan's Queen Noor, has said there were no special "sparks" on that fateful day.
That would change following the tragic 1977 death of the Arab leader's third wife, Queen Alia, in a helicopter crash. The heartbroken king, raising eight children from his marriages, eventually began to court the 26-year-old American beauty.
After a six-week romance, Halaby hesitated at the king's life-altering marriage proposal, made as the two shared an after-dinner plate of apples. The young urban planner finally accepted after a few days of contemplation. She would later say her decision to marry the monarch 16 years her senior was out of love "for the man, not the king."
John Legend was no stranger to the East Village when he and his girlfriend, model Chrissy Teigen, moved into their pied-à-terre on the Bowery in late 2009. The now-32-year-old singer-songwriter first lived in the area a decade ago, sharing a Second Avenue walk-up with two college buddies from the University of Pennsylvania. But this time, with six Grammys on his shelves (plus five more on ice at the 2011 awards, to be held on February 13), Legend had some specific ideas about the space he would soon call his East Coast headquarters. (When in L.A., he crashes at his manse in the Hollywood Hills.) “Most of the places you look at are cookie-cutter boxes. They don’t have any cool shapes,” he says. “When I was drawing up my ideal thing in my head, it was a unique space in a newer building, with lots of light.” Once Legend found a 1,350-square-foot apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows and soaring downtown views, he tapped Winka Dubbeldam of Archi-Tectonics to do the rest. She had her team knock down walls to open up the living area for entertaining, consolidate a series of hallways to make a master suite with a walk-in closet for Teigen, and create a music room with a Yamaha piano that doubles as a guest room. “We wanted to make it feel homey,” Legend says. “And we’re getting there.”
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We just LOVE these black & white photos of Olivia Palermo!
Our favorite fashionista & style crush recently revealed to Spanish Vogue that she will be launching her own fashion line! Her design venture will be the focus of her new reality show, and we can't wait to see what it looks like!!!
Take a behind the scenes peek of her Spanish Vogue (January 2011 issue) photoshoot in the video below!
By the way, are we the only ones who think she looks a bit like a young Fairuz in the top photo?? :)
